The tax payer already has paid for it. Student loans are guaranteed (and since 2010 have been direct from the government).
There is a simple solution to this problem -- at least on the loan side. Any one who has ever gotten a student loan should have to pay an additional small percentage in income tax, say 1%. This money would act as an insurance pool for defaulted loans. This would allow students who can't pay off their loans to be able to declare bankruptcy. This would still hurt their credit but at least it wouldn't hang over their heads for the rest of their life. In addition, student loans should be interest free.
Now, as for the problem of rising costs. That it's a whole other problem. And a difficult one. I don't think, however, people realize that part of the problem is actually the widening gap between the haves and have nots. Consider as a college you can have 1,000 students who can pay $50,000 a year, or 5,000 that pay $10,000. Which kind of college would you want to operate?
I appreciate a larger bezel -- too many tablets/eReaders don't give one enough of one to actually hold on to. But I'm not feeling too keen about it all being on one side. And I really hate the idea of mechanical buttons. And finally the cost is ridiculous. eReaders need to get down to the realm of calculators eventually, not push them up -- of course the real problem there is lack of a single eBook standard. With B&N's Nook going under, there is only Kobo left to compete and they are a poor shadow of Amazon. One has to wonder if the Feds are going to have to do something.
P.S. I was so looking forward to the eBook revolution. I waited on pins and needles for years looking forward to the day I could toss my paper books. But when it finally came, it's been handled so poorly... well, I'm still using paper books mostly. So sad.
If this approach does bare fruit (and I tend to think it will even if it requires some years yet of innovation), applying Mores law would mean we will have machines with the same number of neurons and connections as the human brain in about 30 years, and in less than 50 years such a machine will exceed the neural capacity of all humans on the planet.
It is amazing to me how bad of a company Google actually is, and yet there is so little repercussion. But in retrospect it becomes increasingly clear. Google is just the next Microsoft. Due to the complexity of computers the entrenched OS player(s) simply has too much power to run rough shod over their customers, and there is nothing anyone can really do about it.
I am glad to see they keep pushing the boundaries for small form factor computers. Just wish they do something about all these damn cables!!! E.g. Are we ever going to get combined power and data?
As long as the government can keep secrets then so too the people. If we are true to democracy and principles of this nation, then it can't be both ways.
There is no excuse for a TV to require a separate set-top box. Every digital TV already has all the hardware it needs build in. With this ruling we might even finally get TVs with Tivo functionality built-in.
Off the top of my head it would allow watch battery type applications. Where as small batteries are either disposable or rechargeable but with limited lifetime and very slow recharge times (hours), these would have very long lifetimes and be rechargeable in a matter of seconds.
Patent law has become degenerate. It no longer has any real application to its original intent of protecting innovators. It is now simply another market where any notion can be ligated for the benefit of wealthy commercial interests. My favorite example, a patent for "*" to mean "any characters", i.e. a wild card for search, was issued in 2011.
Unfortunately there is a underlying problem with this scenario. Man seems to have an infinite capacity for creating bureaucratic work in compensation for any real work that no longer needs to be done.
People are too hasty to jump to conclusions. This is just one bit of evidence. It will take much more time and additional evidence to definitively conclude gravitational waves are the real deal.
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The tax payer already has paid for it. Student loans are guaranteed (and since 2010 have been direct from the government).
There is a simple solution to this problem -- at least on the loan side. Any one who has ever gotten a student loan should have to pay an additional small percentage in income tax, say 1%. This money would act as an insurance pool for defaulted loans. This would allow students who can't pay off their loans to be able to declare bankruptcy. This would still hurt their credit but at least it wouldn't hang over their heads for the rest of their life. In addition, student loans should be interest free.
Now, as for the problem of rising costs. That it's a whole other problem. And a difficult one. I don't think, however, people realize that part of the problem is actually the widening gap between the haves and have nots. Consider as a college you can have 1,000 students who can pay $50,000 a year, or 5,000 that pay $10,000. Which kind of college would you want to operate?
This has to be a belated April Fools, right?
There thinking... "Hey, we killed all the competition. We can now charge a fortune."
I appreciate a larger bezel -- too many tablets/eReaders don't give one enough of one to actually hold on to. But I'm not feeling too keen about it all being on one side. And I really hate the idea of mechanical buttons. And finally the cost is ridiculous. eReaders need to get down to the realm of calculators eventually, not push them up -- of course the real problem there is lack of a single eBook standard. With B&N's Nook going under, there is only Kobo left to compete and they are a poor shadow of Amazon. One has to wonder if the Feds are going to have to do something.
P.S. I was so looking forward to the eBook revolution. I waited on pins and needles for years looking forward to the day I could toss my paper books. But when it finally came, it's been handled so poorly... well, I'm still using paper books mostly. So sad.
If this approach does bare fruit (and I tend to think it will even if it requires some years yet of innovation), applying Mores law would mean we will have machines with the same number of neurons and connections as the human brain in about 30 years, and in less than 50 years such a machine will exceed the neural capacity of all humans on the planet.
It is amazing to me how bad of a company Google actually is, and yet there is so little repercussion. But in retrospect it becomes increasingly clear. Google is just the next Microsoft. Due to the complexity of computers the entrenched OS player(s) simply has too much power to run rough shod over their customers, and there is nothing anyone can really do about it.
FYI roaches seem to get drunk on coffee -- they can even overdose themselves to death.
So how much longer until we have actual Atomic 3D Printers?
We need to build in space.
I am glad to see they keep pushing the boundaries for small form factor computers. Just wish they do something about all these damn cables!!! E.g. Are we ever going to get combined power and data?
I just watched this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc) which says such a thing should be impossible.
Iran did it. Duh.
As long as the government can keep secrets then so too the people. If we are true to democracy and principles of this nation, then it can't be both ways.
Anonymous was dismantled a couple years back, so now they are almost certainly a government operation.
There is no excuse for a TV to require a separate set-top box. Every digital TV already has all the hardware it needs build in. With this ruling we might even finally get TVs with Tivo functionality built-in.
How about you make it so any reasonable average person could go? As in, stop f'ing around and make space *accessible*.
Off the top of my head it would allow watch battery type applications. Where as small batteries are either disposable or rechargeable but with limited lifetime and very slow recharge times (hours), these would have very long lifetimes and be rechargeable in a matter of seconds.
Looks exactly the same to me.
Patent law has become degenerate. It no longer has any real application to its original intent of protecting innovators. It is now simply another market where any notion can be ligated for the benefit of wealthy commercial interests. My favorite example, a patent for "*" to mean "any characters", i.e. a wild card for search, was issued in 2011.
Unfortunately there is a underlying problem with this scenario. Man seems to have an infinite capacity for creating bureaucratic work in compensation for any real work that no longer needs to be done.
People are too hasty to jump to conclusions. This is just one bit of evidence. It will take much more time and additional evidence to definitively conclude gravitational waves are the real deal.
Also, you can under provision to stretch the life-time out.
Optical
Can anyone tell me what "fostering inclusive identities of computer scientists" actually means?
Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0